From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 9 5:40:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096B037B405 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958F743E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:40:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 29863 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2002 12:40:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jul 2002 12:40:19 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g69CeIf08605; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:40:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 08:40:29 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer Subject: RE: KSE M-III status & junior hacker project. Cc: FreeBSD current users Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Jul-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: > > Well with various hints from here and there I have fixed > the ^Z/fg problem (at least it seems fixed to me and others that > have tested) This basically leaves only one outstanding > problem that I know of which is a problem that Warner has with a > particular progam. (This may also be fixed but I don't know) > > If anyone knows of something that was broken by the KSE commit, > (i.e. it worked just before and not after) and is STILL > broken please let me know because I think I can pretty much declare that > chapter finished, and I'd like to get on with "extending" KSE > functionality. This will be the start of Milestone IV, which would be > add support for threads to run on multiple processors. > Coincident with that some work should also proceed on gradually > identifying and cleaning up places in the kernel where multithreading > is just not ready.. e.g. which thread status do you get when you type ^T? I would like it if you would make KSE-3 work on other architectures now rather than adding more functionality that only works on i386. This would serve to validate the design decisions made thus far before a whole lot of code depends on those design decisions making it easier to make changes if need be. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message